Lex Fridman Podcast / episode intelligence
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01 / recommendation
“So, one of the things that really impacted me when I was a young man, and I read The Gulag Archipelago, was don’t pursue happiness because the ingredients to happiness can be taken from you outside of your control, your health, but pursue spiritual fullness, pursue, I think he words it duty, and then happiness may come alongside.”
02 / commitment
“I am going to go back, touch my face, draw my elbow tight, and then the arrow’s going to let loose.”
03 / belief
“I think there’s something about the sharpness of the knife’s edge that gets humanity to really focus, and step up, and not screw it up.”
04 / belief
“You won Alone Season 6, and I think are still considered to be one of, if not the most successful survivor on that show.”
05 / belief
“I think of Greenland because I think of those Vikings that settled, there were rugged capable dudes and they didn’t make it.”
06 / belief
“I think if you knew, if some way you knew for sure, I think your mind will start doubting it that whoever told you you’re the last person, whatever was lying.”
07 / belief
“I couldn’t believe I actually, I was like, “Oh my gosh, I got the moose. I think that was a really good shot.”
08 / belief
“I think of the one they gave me because he was long and tall, so they named him [inaudible 02:18:16], and I just remember [inaudible 02:18:19], and just watching him eat the leaves, and go with me through the woods, and trust him to take me through rivers and stuff.”
09 / belief
“I think that’s why, for me, having a path of faith works as a mooring because it can help me shine that light on myself.”
10 / belief
“You know what I mean? And I think that’s a powerful mindset to have appreciated.”
11 / belief
“I think one thing faith in God can do is humble you before these kinds of complexities of the world.”
12 / belief
“I mean I think mentally it would have to be… Well, we talked about that earlier I guess.”
13 / belief
“I think if you’re the last person on earth, you would actually convince yourself, first of all, you don’t know for sure.”
14 / belief
“I think a little bit of it is learned. You almost learned not… you learn not to fear it.”
15 / belief
“One step at a time. I think that a lot. Honestly, I tell myself that a lot when I’m about to do something really hard, just [foreign language 01:28:26], one step at a time.”
16 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. They have this wisdom that comes from patience and have seen it all, have seen all the bullshit of the people that come and gone, all the abuses of power, all of this, I don’t know what it is.”
17 / belief
“I think there’s a lot of the atrocities were committed with people who are very sure of themselves being good.”
18 / belief
“I think I’m not super stricter on anything, but I think when I eat less carbs, I feel better.”
19 / belief
“Just understanding history, read history, it blows my mind that, and I’m super thankful that, somehow, and this has been misused so much, but somehow this ideology arose that love your enemies, forgive those that persecute you, and just on down the line that something like that rose in the world into a position where we all accept those ideals, I think, is really remarkable and worth appreciating.”
20 / commitment
“I have a vague notion of it sucking and I’ll remember the good things. So, being dehydrated, I’ll remember drinking water, and I won’t really remember the hours of feeling like shit.”
21 / belief
“I mean, I don’t mind the heat that much, but I think you could get to the place where you appreciated the cold.”
22 / belief
“You can go out and feel like, “I’m going to pick this spot on the map and go there.” And that’s a tool in your toolkit of life that is I think really valuable, because I think everybody should spend some time in nature.”
23 / belief
“I think that’s something I sat with a lot on that show, is another part of the depths of your psychology to delve into.”
24 / preference
“A lot of times there’s really nice people that pick you up and that’s cool. But I just personally actually didn’t do it a lot and I wasn’t… If you’re on the streets for 10 years, you’ll end up doing it a lot more because you need to get from point A to point B, but we just tried to avoid it as much as we could because it didn’t appeal to us as much.”
25 / evaluation
“I’m thirsty.” So, I sat down, and went to start a fire, and my matches had gotten all wet because the snow had fallen on me, and soaked me, and I didn’t have them wrapped in plastic.”
26 / commitment
“I was really intentional about trying to… I don’t know why I’m here, I just know that that’s my call is to love one another.”
27 / preference
“I think I would’ve felt better if I would’ve had a higher percentage of fat because it’s still more protein than if you’re on a keto diet, you want a lot of fat.”
28 / preference
“For myself that would be bad psychology because then you’re just always disappointing yourself.”
29 / preference
“I think log cabin is great in as a hunting cabin, if you’re going to have something for years.”
30 / recommendation
“I think there’s actual power to doing this kind of documenting, like talking to a camera or an audio recorder. That’s an actual tool in survival because I had a little bit of an experience of being out alone in the jungle and just being able to talk to a thing is much less lonely.”
31 / recommendation
“The way to answer the questions raised by conspiracy theories is not by dismissing them with arrogance and feigned ignorance, but with transparency and accountability.”
32 / preference
“Just how do I exactly capture this very important sentence? But I think what’s more powerful is not literature, but conversation, which is one of the reasons I’ve been carrying and feeling the responsibility of having conversations with Russian speakers because I can still see the music of it, I can still see the wit of it.”
33 / recommendation
“You have to unlock the key that is sustainability. And I think there’s a lot of areas that still have that potential, but you have to figure out what it is.”